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mellotanica

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Registered: 2014-07-08

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[SOLVED] Conky with KDE/Plasma5 not starting automatically

i am running a KDE arch desktop, without login manager (i run startx from tty each time) and it seems that conky is not able to start automatically with the desktop environment.

i already tried almost anything, the first and most simple approach was enable autostart, i verified that the script runs during kde startup having it output text to a file, the file is created but conky is not starting.

i also tried to redirect conky output and standard error to another file to see if there are errors notified by conky but nothing gets printed..

obviously running conky manually when kde has started works flawlessly, and nobody else seem to be experiencing a similar issue, so i am starting to think that is related with my lack of a login manager. i know that installing a login manager could resolve my issue, but i would prefer to avoid it...

any idea on what i can try?

thanks!

EDIT:

seems i finally found the solution myself. the only way to autostart conky in my setup seems to be using what kde calls "program autostart", that means placing a valid .desktop file into ~/.config/autostart directory.
if conky is run this way, it shows up at kde sturtup, with the traditional "script autostart" it won't start no matter what.

Last edited by mellotanica (2016-01-21 10:42:17)